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Acting

Donald Sinden

Career: Active from 1953 to 2003, with a break from 1982 to 1995, busiest in 1955 with 4 main titles.

Leading roles: 26
top three billing

Average score: 62/100

Highest rated: The Cruel Sea
87/100

Characters

2

The characters Donald Sinden played, best-known titles first.

Donald Sinden as Simon Peel

Donald Sinden as Robert Hiller

Character images: TheTVDB

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 32 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Donald Sinden Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.6, average 5.4
Psychological
4.1, average 5.5
Coming of Age
1.7, average 3.0
Melancholy
3.5, average 4.7

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 4
Witty Dialogue 3
Feel-Good 3
Lighthearted 3
Political Intrigue 2
Period Piece 2
Classic Adventure 2
Family-Friendly 2
Classic British Sitcom 2
Nostalgic 2
Historical Drama 2
Classic Cinema 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

66

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

1 title · average score 16

Run For Your Wife

16

as Man on Bus

2000s

3 titles · average score 72

The Accidental Detective

as Professor Stein

Judge John Deed

72

TV show · as Sir Joseph Channing

How Proust Can Change Your Life

as Duc d'Albufera

1990s

13 titles · average score 63

Nancherrow

61

as Robin Jarvis

Alice in Wonderland

41

as Gryphon (voice)

Nancherrow

70

TV show

Atatürk

62

as Narrator (voice)

Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh

77

as Col. Pickering

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Colonel Henry Hammond

The Canterville Ghost

59

as Lord Dumbleton

The Canterville Ghost

61

as Mr. Umney

Cuts

as Sir Luke Trimingham

The Treasure Seekers

59

as Old Wincott

Balto

62

as Doc (voice)

Performance

TV show · as Edmund of Langley

1980s

4 titles · average score 82

Playing Shakespeare

96

TV show

Never the Twain

68

TV show · as Simon Peel

Present Laughter

as Garry Essendine

All's Well That Ends Well

as King of France

1970s

11 titles · average score 62

Two's Company

75

TV show · as Robert Hiller

That Lucky Touch

56

as British Gen. Armstrong

The Island at the Top of the World

54

as Sir Anthony Ross

The National Health

65

as Mr. Carr / Senior Surgeon Boyd

The Day of the Jackal

82

as Mallinson

Father Dear Father

52

as Philip Glover

The Organization

TV show · as David Pulman

Rentadick

40

as Jeffrey Armitage

Villain

62

as Gerald Draycott

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

73

TV show · as Romney Pringle

The Ten Commandments

TV show · as Major

1960s

15 titles · average score 66

The Judgement of Albion

as Voice

Ooh La La!

TV show

The Prisoner

92

TV show · as The Colonel

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Philip Carter

The Wars of the Roses

as Duke of York

Thirty-Minute Theatre

TV show · as Andrew Pelham

The Wars of the Roses

TV show · as Plantagenet

TV show · as Solinus, Duke of Ephesus

Twice Round the Daffodils

66

as Ian Richards

Mix Me a Person

62

as Philip Bellamy, QC

Your Money or Your Wife

as Pelham Butterworth

The Siege of Sidney Street

52

as Inspector Mannering

1950s

18 titles · average score 63

The Captain's Table

59

as Chief Officer Shawe-Wilson

Doctor at Large

50

as Dr. Tony Benskin

Tiger in the Smoke

64

as Geoffrey Leavitt

The Black Tent

56

as Col. Sir Charles Holland

Eyewitness

65

as Wade

Above Us the Waves

63

as Lieutenant Tom Corbett

Simba

64

as Inspector Drummond

An Alligator Named Daisy

57

as Peter Weston

Mad About Men

64

as Jeff Saunders

The Cruel Sea

87

as Lockhart

Mogambo

62

as Donald Nordley

A Day to Remember

70

as Jim Carver

1940s

1 title · average score 65

Portrait from Life

65

as Minor Role